route
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Compute a turn-by-turn route between origin and destination (optionally via waypoints). Costing "auto" = car, "truck" = lorry, "bicycle", "pedestrian" = walking, "motor_scooter" = moped. Pass truck {height_m, width_m, length_m, gross_weight_t, hazmat, tunnel_code} to apply dimensional limits and the ADR dangerous-goods tunnel matrix to the search; pedestrian {use_lit 0-1, type "wheelchair"|"blind", max_hiking_difficulty 1-6} for lit-street walking, accessibility and trail limits; bicycle {bicycle_type, use_roads 0-1, use_living_streets 0-1, avoid_bad_surfaces 0-1, use_hills 0-1} for quiet-ride and surface preferences. Returns distance (m), duration (s), maneuvers, polyline6 geometry and the ADR costing that was applied. Any of truck, auto, bicycle, pedestrian or motor_scooter routes may set rationale: true (opt-in, costs up to 1 + N extra routing calls) to learn which declared truck constraints or avoidance-side preferences (hills, surfaces, tolls, unlit streets, …) actually changed the route (rationale.avoided[], basis route_divergence — it proves a field was binding, it does not identify the physical restriction or feature, and no live traffic or incident data is ever attributed). ADR honesty: applied_adr.forbidden_tunnel_categories describes the LOAD, not the returned route, and applied_adr.tunnel_enforcement states the boundary: roads are excluded only where the routing graph records an ADR tunnel category, so an unchanged route is not a clearance. Set landmarks: true for turn instructions anchored to recognisable places — each manoeuvre that passes one gains a landmark_instruction like "Turn right just after the Shell garage" beside the engine's own street-name instruction, which is never replaced. Prefer reading it aloud: it is how a passenger gives directions. Nothing is named unless it is recognisable from the road, within 40 m of the junction and not tagged as closed, so many routes return none and a landmarks.annotated of 0 with no note means this route genuinely passes nothing recognisable. Needs the MapMap gateway (GATEWAY_URL + GATEWAY_API_KEY), whose place index does the lookup. Optional exclude_polygons for what-if scenarios ("close this bridge and re-route"): an array of polygons, each an array of [lon, lat] pairs forming one ring — longitude FIRST — whose intersecting roads are excluded from the search. Applies to the Valhalla engine; unsupported on the GraphHopper engine, where it is ignored. Optional avoid and exclude name road features to keep off, and the difference between them is not cosmetic. avoid ("tolls", "highways", "ferries") is a PREFERENCE: it sets the costing's willingness to zero, and the engine's own reference says that is not guaranteed to avoid the feature — measured, avoiding tolls across the Dartford Crossing returns the same tolled route, because the untolled alternative is fifty kilometres further. exclude ("tolls", "highways", "ferries", "bridges", "tunnels") is a hard exclusion: it can answer NO ROUTE rather than a detour, and it depends on the routing engine's own hard-exclusion setting, which the engine does not report and this server cannot read — so it is requested, never promised. "tolls" and "highways" under avoid exist only on motorised costings; asking for one on a bicycle is refused rather than silently ignored. Whatever is applied comes back in avoidance, with the caveats — relay them, because "avoid tolls" read as a guarantee is the failure mode here. Each location also takes a kerbside approach: preferred_side "same" (alias "curb") stops on the door's side of the road, resolved against the locale's driving side — the left kerb in the UK, the right in Germany — with "opposite" and "either" (alias "unrestricted") for the rest. It is a snapping preference, not a manoeuvre guarantee, and it needs a coordinate genuinely offset from the road centreline; street_side_tolerance_m and street_side_max_distance_m bound the window in which it applies, and a pair leaving no window is refused rather than answered with the preference silently inert. Pass emissions {vehicle_category, fuel, euro_standard} for UK clean-air-zone assessment: the response's zones block then names every zone the route enters and what THIS vehicle pays there, with the publishing authority cited. Without it a zone can only be named, never priced. Needs the gateway, which holds the curated zone dataset; the whole dataset — every scheme, charge, boundary and provenance record — is readable at GET /v1/zones on the HTTP API when an agent needs to audit a figure or list zones without routing.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| avoid | array | null | no | Road features to avoid as a PREFERENCE. Rendered as the costing's willingness factor set to zero — a thumb on the scale, not a ban. The engine's own reference is explicit that a value of zero is not guaranteed to avoid the feature entirely, and it does not: asking to avoid tolls across the Dartford Crossing returns the same tolled route, because the untolled alternative is fifty kilometres further. Use `exclude` when you mean a ban. |
| bicycle | any | no | Bicycle options (bicycle type, road/surface/hill preferences). Requires costing "bicycle". |
| costing | any | no | Costing model: "auto" (default), "truck", "bicycle", "pedestrian" or "motor_scooter". |
| destination | any | yes | Route destination. |
| emissions | any | no | The vehicle's emission declaration, for UK clean-air / low-emission zone assessment. Given, the response's `zones` block names every zone the route enters and what THIS vehicle pays there, with the publishing authority cited. Without it a zone can only be named, never priced. Needs the MapMap gateway, which holds the curated zone dataset; the full dataset is readable at `GET /v1/zones`. |
| exclude | array | null | no | Road features to exclude outright, rendered as the costing's hard exclusion flag. Two things follow from that and both matter: a hard exclusion can return NO ROUTE rather than a detour (excluding tunnels on a Rotherhithe crossing has no answer), and the flags depend on the routing engine's `allow_hard_exclusions` setting, which the engine does not expose and nothing here can read — so this is never promised, only requested. |
| exclude_polygons | array | null | no | Areas to avoid — scenario analysis ("close this bridge and re-route"): an array of polygons, each an array of `[lon, lat]` pairs forming one exterior ring (GeoJSON-style, longitude FIRST). Roads intersecting any ring are excluded from the search. Applies to the Valhalla engine; unsupported on the GraphHopper engine, where it is ignored. |
| landmarks | boolean | null | no | Name landmarks in the turn instructions (default false): each manoeuvre that passes a recognisable place — a petrol station, a supermarket, a household-name chain — gains a `landmark_instruction` like "Turn right just after the Shell garage" beside the engine's own street-name instruction, which is never replaced. Nothing is named unless it is recognisable from the road, within 40 m of the junction and not tagged as closed, so many routes come back with none: a wrong landmark is worse than no landmark. Needs the MapMap gateway, whose place index does the lookup. |
| origin | any | yes | Route origin. |
| pedestrian | any | no | Pedestrian options (lit-street preference, wheelchair/blind type, hiking difficulty). Requires costing "pedestrian". |
| rationale | boolean | null | no | Explain the route (default false): re-routes with each declared truck constraint (truck costing) or avoidance-side routing preference (auto, bicycle, pedestrian, motor_scooter) relaxed and reports the ones that actually changed the route as `rationale.avoided[]`. Opt-in — it costs up to 1 + N extra routing calls, one per declared field plus one combined probe, and it is billed for the ones it actually makes: at most 8 in total, typically fewer, and 1 when there is nothing to probe. Against the hosted gateway each probe is its own metered route call, which is exactly what `POST /route` with `rationale: true` charges for its own fan-out, so the two surfaces price the same explanation the same way. |
| truck | any | no | Truck profile (dimensions + ADR declaration). Requires costing "truck"; when present, ADR dangerous-goods costing options are merged into the request. |
| waypoints | array | null | no | Optional intermediate stops, visited in order between origin and destination. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$defs": {
"AvoidFeature": {
"description": "A road feature to avoid as a PREFERENCE, not a ban. \"tolls\" and \"highways\" apply to motorised costings only (auto, truck, bus, motor_scooter, motorcycle); \"ferries\" applies to every costing. Asking for one on a costing whose engine table has no field for it is refused rather than silently ignored.",
"enum": [
"tolls",
"highways",
"ferries"
],
"type": "string"
},
"BicycleSpec": {
"description": "Bicycle options for costing \"bicycle\": the bicycle type plus road,\nsurface and hill preference weights, mapped onto Valhalla\n`costing_options.bicycle`.",
"properties": {
"avoid_bad_surfaces": {
"description": "Avoidance of surfaces unsuited to the bicycle type, 0.0–1.0\n(1.0 = strictly avoid bad surfaces).",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"bicycle_type": {
"description": "Bicycle type: \"road\", \"hybrid\" (default), \"city\", \"cross\" or\n\"mountain\". Sets default speed and surface tolerance.",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"use_hills": {
"description": "Willingness to take hills, 0.0–1.0 (0.0 = avoid climbs even at the\ncost of longer routes).",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"use_living_streets": {
"description": "Preference for living/shared streets, 0.0–1.0.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"use_roads": {
"description": "Willingness to ride roads alongside motor traffic, 0.0–1.0\n(0.0 = prefer cycleways and quiet streets — the quiet-ride slider).",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"CostingKind": {
"description": "Costing models exposed by the MCP tools (a deliberate subset of the\nValhalla costing list), serialised in snake_case exactly as Valhalla\nnames them.",
"oneOf": [
{
"const": "auto",
"description": "Standard car costing.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "truck",
"description": "Truck costing; honours dimensional limits and, when a `truck`\nprofile is supplied, ADR dangerous-goods restrictions.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "bicycle",
"description": "Bicycle costing; tune it with a `bicycle` options object.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "pedestrian",
"description": "Pedestrian (walking) costing; tune it with a `pedestrian` options\nobject (lit streets, wheelchair/blind, hiking difficulty).",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "motor_scooter",
"description": "Motor scooter (moped) costing: like auto but prefers lower-speed\nroads and may use ways closed to larger motor vehicles.",
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"EmissionsFuel": {
"description": "What a vehicle burns, in clean-air-zone scheme terms.",
"oneOf": [
{
"const": "petrol",
"description": "Petrol, including petrol hybrids (schemes rate a hybrid by its\ncombustion engine's approval).",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "diesel",
"description": "Diesel, including diesel hybrids.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "electric",
"description": "Battery-electric.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "hydrogen",
"description": "Hydrogen fuel cell.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "gas",
"description": "LPG or CNG; rated as petrol by every scheme in the dataset.",
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"EmissionsSpec": {
"description": "A vehicle's emission declaration, for clean-air / low-emission zone\nassessment.",
"properties": {
"euro_standard": {
"description": "Its Euro emission standard, 1–6. Heavy-duty approvals are written\nin Roman numerals (Euro VI); declare Euro VI as `6`. Required for\nany combustion fuel — without it no zone can be resolved, and a\nhalf-declared vehicle is indistinguishable from an undeclared one.\nOptional only for `electric` or `hydrogen`.",
"format": "uint8",
"maximum": 255,
"minimum": 0,
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"fuel": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/EmissionsFuel",
"description": "What it burns."
},
"vehicle_category": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/EmissionsVehicleCategory",
"description": "What kind of vehicle this is, in scheme terms."
}
},
"required": [
"vehicle_category",
"fuel"
],
"type": "object"
},
"EmissionsVehicleCategory": {
"description": "What a vehicle is, in clean-air-zone scheme terms.\n\nDeclaring this turns \"charge depends on vehicle emissions\" into an\nanswer. Without it a zone can only be named, never priced.",
"oneOf": [
{
"const": "car",
"description": "A private car.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "van",
"description": "A van or light goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "minibus",
"description": "A minibus (typically 8+ passenger seats, up to 5 tonnes).",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "hgv",
"description": "A heavy goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "bus",
"description": "A bus over 5 tonnes.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "coach",
"description": "A coach over 5 tonnes.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "taxi",
"description": "A licensed hackney carriage.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "phv",
"description": "A private hire vehicle.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "motorcycle",
"description": "A motorcycle, moped or tricycle.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "motorhome",
"description": "A motor caravan or campervan.",
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"ExcludeFeature": {
"description": "A road feature to exclude outright. A hard exclusion can leave a request with no path at all — that is the honest answer, not a failure — and it depends on the routing engine's own hard-exclusion setting, which nothing here can read.",
"enum": [
"tolls",
"highways",
"ferries",
"bridges",
"tunnels"
],
"type": "string"
},
"PedestrianSpec": {
"description": "Pedestrian options for costing \"pedestrian\": lit-street preference,\naccessibility type and hiking difficulty, mapped onto Valhalla\n`costing_options.pedestrian`. All preferences, never guarantees — the\nrouter prefers matching ways where the map data supports it.",
"properties": {
"max_hiking_difficulty": {
"description": "Maximum hiking-trail difficulty the route may use, as OSM\n`sac_scale` 1–6 (1 = well-cleared, mostly flat trails; 6 =\ndemanding alpine terrain). Default 1.",
"format": "uint8",
"maximum": 255,
"minimum": 0,
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"type": {
"description": "Pedestrian type: \"wheelchair\" (avoids steps, kerbs and steep\ngrades where mapped) or \"blind\" (richer guidance detail). Omit for\nthe default on-foot profile.",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"use_lit": {
"description": "Preference for lit streets, 0.0–1.0 (1.0 = prefer lit paths as\nstrongly as possible — the \"walk me home on lit streets\" option).\nUnlit ways are still used when no lit alternative exists.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"PreferredSideKind": {
"description": "Side-of-street preference for arriving at or departing from a location.\n\nCarries both vocabularies: MapMap's own `same`/`opposite`/`either` and\nthe OSRM/Mapbox `approaches` words `curb`/`unrestricted`, which are\naliases for `same` and `either`. Both spell the same request, on this\nsurface and on the HTTP API.",
"oneOf": [
{
"const": "same",
"description": "The side the location itself projects to — the kerb, resolved\nagainst the locale's driving side (the left kerb in the UK, the\nright in Germany).",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "opposite",
"description": "The far side of the road from the location.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "either",
"description": "No side preference.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "curb",
"description": "Alias for `same`, from the OSRM/Mapbox `approaches` vocabulary.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "unrestricted",
"description": "Alias for `either`, from the OSRM/Mapbox `approaches` vocabulary.",
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"RouteLocation": {
"description": "One location of a `route` request: a coordinate, plus the optional\nkerbside approach for arriving at it.\n\nA bare `{lat, lon}` is still a complete location — every kerbside field\nis optional and omitting all of them is exactly the request that was\nmade before they existed.",
"properties": {
"lat": {
"description": "Latitude in decimal degrees (−90 to 90).",
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
},
"lon": {
"description": "Longitude in decimal degrees (−180 to 180).",
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
},
"preferred_side": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/PreferredSideKind"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Which side of the street to arrive on (or depart from). `same` (or\n`curb`) puts the vehicle on the door's side of the road, resolved\nagainst the locale's driving side. Two honest limits: this is a\n**snapping preference**, not a manoeuvre guarantee — the engine\nprefers an edge on that side, it does not promise the driver never\ncrosses — and it needs a coordinate genuinely offset from the road\ncentreline, because a point on the centreline has no side."
},
"street_side_max_distance_m": {
"description": "Metres: further than this from the road centreline, the side of\nstreet is treated as `none` and `preferred_side` does nothing.\nEngine default 1000 m. Together with `street_side_tolerance_m` this\nis a WINDOW: a pair that leaves no window (tolerance at or above\nmax distance) is refused here rather than answered with a route on\nwhich the kerbside preference was silently inert.",
"format": "uint32",
"minimum": 0,
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"street_side_tolerance_m": {
"description": "Metres: nearer than this to the road centreline, the side of street\nis treated as `none` and `preferred_side` does nothing. Engine\ndefault 5 m.",
"format": "uint32",
"minimum": 0,
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
}
},
"required": [
"lat",
"lon"
],
"type": "object"
},
"TruckSpec": {
"description": "Truck profile for routing: physical dimensions plus the ADR\ndangerous-goods declaration. Omitted dimensions default to the EU\nmaximum authorised dimensions of Council Directive 96/53/EC (4.0 m\nheight, 2.55 m width, 16.5 m length, 40 t gross weight).",
"properties": {
"gross_weight_t": {
"description": "Gross combination weight in metric tonnes.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"hazmat": {
"default": false,
"description": "Whether the vehicle carries dangerous goods (ADR). Defaults to\nfalse.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"height_m": {
"description": "Vehicle height in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"length_m": {
"description": "Vehicle length in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"tunnel_code": {
"description": "ADR 8.6.4 tunnel restriction code of the load, e.g. \"B\", \"C5000D\",\n\"B/D\", or \"(—)\"/\"none\" for explicitly unrestricted. Leave unset if\nunknown: a hazmat load without a code is conservatively treated as\ncode B (allowed only through category-A tunnels).",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"width_m": {
"description": "Vehicle width in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
}
},
"type": "object"
}
},
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"avoid": {
"description": "Road features to avoid as a PREFERENCE. Rendered as the costing's\nwillingness factor set to zero — a thumb on the scale, not a ban.\nThe engine's own reference is explicit that a value of zero is not\nguaranteed to avoid the feature entirely, and it does not: asking\nto avoid tolls across the Dartford Crossing returns the same tolled\nroute, because the untolled alternative is fifty kilometres\nfurther. Use `exclude` when you mean a ban.",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/AvoidFeature"
},
"type": [
"array",
"null"
]
},
"bicycle": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/BicycleSpec"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Bicycle options (bicycle type, road/surface/hill preferences).\nRequires costing \"bicycle\"."
},
"costing": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/CostingKind",
"default": "auto",
"description": "Costing model: \"auto\" (default), \"truck\", \"bicycle\", \"pedestrian\"\nor \"motor_scooter\"."
},
"destination": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/RouteLocation",
"description": "Route destination."
},
"emissions": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/EmissionsSpec"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "The vehicle's emission declaration, for UK clean-air / low-emission\nzone assessment. Given, the response's `zones` block names every\nzone the route enters and what THIS vehicle pays there, with the\npublishing authority cited. Without it a zone can only be named,\nnever priced. Needs the MapMap gateway, which holds the curated\nzone dataset; the full dataset is readable at `GET /v1/zones`."
},
"exclude": {
"description": "Road features to exclude outright, rendered as the costing's hard\nexclusion flag. Two things follow from that and both matter: a hard\nexclusion can return NO ROUTE rather than a detour (excluding\ntunnels on a Rotherhithe crossing has no answer), and the flags\ndepend on the routing engine's `allow_hard_exclusions` setting,\nwhich the engine does not expose and nothing here can read — so\nthis is never promised, only requested.",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/ExcludeFeature"
},
"type": [
"array",
"null"
]
},
"exclude_polygons": {
"description": "Areas to avoid — scenario analysis (\"close this bridge and\nre-route\"): an array of polygons, each an array of `[lon, lat]`\npairs forming one exterior ring (GeoJSON-style, longitude FIRST).\nRoads intersecting any ring are excluded from the search. Applies\nto the Valhalla engine; unsupported on the GraphHopper engine,\nwhere it is ignored.",
"items": {
"items": {
"items": {
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
},
"maxItems": 2,
"minItems": 2,
"type": "array"
},
"type": "array"
},
"type": [
"array",
"null"
]
},
"landmarks": {
"description": "Name landmarks in the turn instructions (default false): each\nmanoeuvre that passes a recognisable place — a petrol station, a\nsupermarket, a household-name chain — gains a\n`landmark_instruction` like \"Turn right just after the Shell\ngarage\" beside the engine's own street-name instruction, which is\nnever replaced. Nothing is named unless it is recognisable from the\nroad, within 40 m of the junction and not tagged as closed, so many\nroutes come back with none: a wrong landmark is worse than no\nlandmark. Needs the MapMap gateway, whose place index does the\nlookup.",
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"origin": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/RouteLocation",
"description": "Route origin."
},
"pedestrian": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/PedestrianSpec"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Pedestrian options (lit-street preference, wheelchair/blind type,\nhiking difficulty). Requires costing \"pedestrian\"."
},
"rationale": {
"description": "Explain the route (default false): re-routes with each declared\ntruck constraint (truck costing) or avoidance-side routing\npreference (auto, bicycle, pedestrian, motor_scooter) relaxed and\nreports the ones that actually changed the route as\n`rationale.avoided[]`. Opt-in — it costs up to 1 + N extra routing\ncalls, one per declared field plus one combined probe, and it is\nbilled for the ones it actually makes: at most 8 in total,\ntypically fewer, and 1 when there is nothing to probe. Against the\nhosted gateway each probe is its own metered route call, which is\nexactly what `POST /route` with `rationale: true` charges for its\nown fan-out, so the two surfaces price the same explanation the\nsame way.",
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"truck": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/TruckSpec"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Truck profile (dimensions + ADR declaration). Requires costing\n\"truck\"; when present, ADR dangerous-goods costing options are\nmerged into the request."
},
"waypoints": {
"description": "Optional intermediate stops, visited in order between origin and\ndestination.",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/RouteLocation"
},
"type": [
"array",
"null"
]
}
},
"required": [
"origin",
"destination"
],
"type": "object"
}